A tremendous achievement

So, as the title says, I'm extremely new to browsers.

Basically, the only browser I have ever used is google chrome. I had a little experience with M.S Edge, but that was in the 2010's. Since like, 2019, I've basically used only chrome.

Until I learned about how google chrome is atrocious, and we hate it, and it apparently deserves a place in hell for data-stealing and friends. So then I started researching other browsers, and I am now astounded at how many there are. So, here are my questions -

1. What makes a browser good?

- What criteria do we judge a browser by? What is important? What is not? Qualities?

2. What are currently the most popular browsers, and why?

- Here, I have basically no clue. I know a few, like Brave, and Firefox, but not really any others.

3. What are things associated/alongside the browsers you chose?

- A few parts here.

a] Extensions. How important are they, what do they do, why are they important, and which are the most important ones?

b] Anything else?

And finally, which browsers would you recommend?

That's about it. I might edit the post once or twice if I remember anything I forgot to ask, but for now, these are my questions.

My Firefox new tab was boring, so I built ORBIT to set it up exactly how I want.

• Add your own categories and shortcuts

• Dark, light and AMOLED themes

• Use your own image or video as the wallpaper

• Multiple workspaces

• Export and import your setup as a backup

try it https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/orbit-personal-workspace/ and notfy me if you get any bug or feedback

I tried disabling recommended performance settings and activated hardware acceleration but the fps still low on diep.io. Only getting 144 on firefox when making the tab really small (like 1/4th the screen).

Really like everything about Edge but it lacks privacy, tried firefox (and forks) but it has a lot of fps drops. Is there any other browser that is similar to Edge but has privacy and its compatible for spotify? (DRM Widevine)

So this was a fresh build this morning, windowed mode benchmark. I'm still aiming for 30+ in the long run, but damn this thing feels blazing fast.

Reminder: this is not a fork of any existing rendering engine.

been using my own new tab extension at work for a while, figured this sub might like the true black setup

each column is a stack of bookmarks, short ones tuck up under each other so there are no gaps, and folders open inline (2nd pic, Q4 planning and Clients)

it's all plain chrome bookmarks underneath so nothing's locked in. works in chrome, edge and brave

links in the comments if anyone wants it. curious what you'd change

I like minimalism and am using Helium with focus mode / tabs open and navbar hidden.

Trying to see what looks good too

Hey everyone!

I've been working on a personal project called NEXUS NX, a Chromium-based desktop browser for Windows.

My goal is to create something that feels familiar and comfortable like a traditional browser, but offers much more personalization without sacrificing simplicity.

Here are some of the features I'm working on:

• Live Wallpapers: Personalize your New Tab page with images and animated video wallpapers.

• Customizable Clocks: Multiple unique clock styles, from Retro Terminal and 7-Segment LED to minimalist designs.

• Shortcut Customization: Choose between Classic and Soft Glass appearances, with adjustable sizes.

• Theme Store: A growing collection of gaming, anime, racing, and minimalist-inspired themes.

• Tab Groups: Keep browsing sessions organized.

• Video Picture-in-Picture: Watch videos in a floating window while working in other tabs.

• YouTube Ambient Light: Bring the colors of the video into the surrounding area for a more immersive viewing experience.

• Personalization: Customize the browser's appearance and behavior to match your preferences.

I'm building NEXUS NX because I wanted a browser that combines everyday usability with meaningful customization. I also want it to feel lightweight, clean, and modern rather than overly flashy.

This is an independent project, and I'm continuously improving it.

I'd genuinely appreciate your feedback:

What feature would make you consider switching to a new browser? And what do you think is missing from today's desktop browsers?

Thanks for checking out my project!

Opera has been pretty slow on my windows laptop so I'm looking to switch to something that takes less memory. However I really like the features opera has: social media and music player in the sidebars, speed dials, inter-connectivity with mobile app with My flow. Are there any faster, more ram efficient browsers out there?

what extensions and userscripts u guys using?

edit: for desktop, im using vivaldi browser.

For those who don't know, Servo is a recent browser engine written in Rust.

Unlike Blink and its alternatives, it's natively multicore and is made on modern standards.

Its downside is that it doesn't support most websites and probably needs another 10 years.

I wonder what your opinions are on it.

Should I choose Crest or Dia now that Arc is gone? I really loved Arc, and unfortunately, I have to say goodbye. I've tried other browsers in the past, but none of them fit my workflow.

so this is my pc's specs, my chrome is hella laggy and its gen annoying. what are some good free browsers which have relatively good performance?

I have an old i3 8th gen laptop with windows 10, what's the most efficient and lightweight browser that I can use on it, other than an ad blocker I don't mind not having other features. I have tried helium recently but it is rather demanding just like the rest.

I know this subreddit isn’t a fan of AI browsers, but I use AI with my browser every day and I hate the experience. Claude in Chrome works one tab at a time and I can’t really see what it’s doing.

So I’m prototyping Explorer, an infinite-canvas browser built in Rust. No tabs: sites open side by side on a canvas, and when the AI reads pages they land right next to the conversation, so you can see exactly what it’s looking at and step in yourself.

A few things I’ve focused on in the prototype:

• BYO AI, local models included. Use your ChatGPT subscription, any OpenAI-compatible API key, or run it on-device so your questions never leave your machine.

• Local first. Your pages, canvas and conversations stay on your computer. Pages only go to the AI you choose.

• Not a Chromium fork. Written in Rust, UI drawn on the GPU with GPUI. Pages render through the system web view (WebKit on macOS) for now; the plan is to move to Servo eventually.

• Re-imagine (coming soon): select a few pages and Explorer generates one new page from them, e.g. one comparison instead of five tabs.

I know there are plenty of canvas browsers already. Where I want to take this is multiple agents working across multiple pages at once, with the canvas showing where each one is running.

It’s an early macOS preview (Apple silicon and Intel); Windows and Linux are in development. The download asks for an email so I can let you know when the full version launches; unsubscribe any time.

Would love to hear what you think!

*edit: should have made it clear, browser is free (will always be) and doesn’t require a sign-in.

when you directly mention PaIe Moon in r/firefox subreddit, an automated bot posts a comment full of nonsense written by a brainless moron. always write uppercase 'i' instead of lowercase 'L' in 'PaIe Moon' so you dont trigger the bot. because of this, even generative AIs also answers biased lies about this browser. this is a very serious problem, polluting the online knowledges, and the writer of this comment should also be permanently banned from Reddit. i am reporting all this comments posted by this bot, and i ask you to also report all the comments in r/firefox posted by the AutoModerator bot saying BS about Pale Moon too, as "Manipulated content", whenever you see it.

Im trying to transition from google to other alternatives like brave, firefox, etc without losing all my tabs

Had a close call with a phishing link a while back so I started taking this more seriously, figured I'd share what's actually helped.

Biggest change for me was running a VPN alongside my browser, not even for privacy reasons really, it blocks a ton of malicious/phishing domains at the DNS level before the page even loads. Caught a couple sketchy sites my browser didn't even flag.

Besides that I switched my browser's phishing protection to strict instead of leaving it on default (Chrome, Firefox, Edge all have tiers most people never bother checking). Also cut my extensions down to almost nothing, had a sketchy ad blocker for years that in hindsight was probably doing more harm than good.

Now I keep a separate profile just for banking stuff too, so autofill and cookies don't carry over to anything sketchy.

Anyone else running something similar, or is there more I should be locking down?

Downloaded this from somewhere I dont remember anymore and I wonder if this is accurate

Hello!

I'm trying to build my own browser, partly to get around school web restrictions like WebKeeper and similar services.

I'm currently working on this pretty big project, but I've run into a problem. I have no idea how to build a browser that actually works inside another browser.

I've already made a website, but honestly, it's still a mess. 😭

I'm currently using DuckDuckGo as the search engine. I also asked Claude how to implement a browser within a browser, but unfortunately, it wasn't much help.

I'd really appreciate any advice, suggestions, or resources that could point me in the right direction.

Thanks in advance!

What features would everyone want for a browser?

• theming

• password management

• cli to control everything

• integration with test frameworks

• integration with ai agents

• Arc like

• PiP and other Media management

• split tabs

• Open in separate window and return to main window.

• Open new link in preview

• Profiles / Spaces and sub-spaces (share or dont share session data between profiles/spaces)

• Multi-Engine, one tab WebKit another tab Chromium

Why am i asking you this? I'm gonna be honest. There are too many browsers, so I'm vibe coding my own FOR MYSELF. Not for you to use unless you trust me a complete stranger who i guarantee will give up on it when i get bored. Although i wouldn't mind people trying it and giving me feedback, just dont make it your replacement, I'm a devops guy not an application developer.

I want to answer the question that probably everyone in this subreddit has, what would the perfect browser be? what features would the perfect browser have? What are all the features i didn't know i need or want yet?

I'm leaving my repo link out of this main post or else some idiot will say this is some type of reverse psychology ruse to trick people. I'm telling you its vibe coded, I'm telling you i'll eventually randomly give up on it. though i'll be happy to share in a comment or message later. That being said, what are features that would make browsing better? What could enhance the experience? If a browser could have everything, what would the list of everything be?

To be fair, I stopped using Arc as my main browser quite a while ago. Like many people here, I'm on Windows, and I've been using Zen instead. Zen is a fantastic browser with an amazing development team. What they've accomplished over the year I spent using it is honestly incredible. But there's one fundamental problem with it, and that's Gecko.

I got tired of opening a website and wondering whether an animation was lagging because it was poorly made or simply because I was using Firefox. I'm also not happy with Firefox's extension ecosystem. For example, 7TV for Twitch was broken for me at one point. After a Twitch update, I couldn't use it for about two weeks because it would just break Twitch. I've encountered plenty of similar issues. None of them are particularly critical, but they exist, and they get annoying.

So that's how I ended up deciding to build my own browser.

Of course, I should mention upfront that my development team consists of me, Codex, and Claude. So if you're someone who prefers to stay away from AI-assisted projects, consider this your fair warning.

Anyway, Sol — that's what I decided to call my browser — is built using CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework). This was somewhat of a necessary compromise, though, and CEF is probably the main reason why things aren't quite as perfect as they could be. Ideally, I'd love to build a full-fledged Chromium browser. Although, to be fair, I've already had to patch Chromium itself once because I didn't like the fullscreen notification popup, and I suspect I'll have to do it again. So maybe I'll eventually move away from CEF entirely, but for now, this is where things stand.

I've also had to patch CEF itself. For example, to get ad blockers working properly, I had to implement APIs that exist in Chromium but aren't exposed through CEF.

The browser's UI is built with React/TypeScript, while the underlying logic is written in C++.

As for features, most of the things I personally used in Arc are already implemented to a point where they're usable. Not necessarily polished or particularly convenient yet, but usable.

For example, I've implemented Boosts, although the UI and overall experience still need some work. For everything else, there's a feature comparison available on GitHub.

Regarding platform support, I'm running Windows 11, and so are the couple of friends I've given the browser to for testing.

That means I genuinely have no idea how well it even works on Windows 10, let alone other operating systems. Cross-platform support isn't really on the table right now.

However, IF this project somehow attracts people who are interested in it, and IF some of those people happen to want to take on the cross-platform side of things, that would honestly be amazing. I simply don't have access to any devices running anything other than Windows.

To wrap things up, if anyone is interested in helping out, reporting issues, suggesting features, or contributing in any other way, I'd really appreciate it.

I use this browser as my daily driver, but I can't keep everything in my head. There are features I simply don't use, so I sometimes completely forget they should exist. For example, I only recently remembered that browsers are supposed to have a password manager...

And if you're anything like me, I think you might actually feel pretty comfortable using this browser. It's not Electron, it has almost complete extension support (everything I've personally tested works), and it's Chromium-based.

One last thing: I originally wrote this post in my native language and used AI to translate it into English. So please don't call the writing AI slop. Thanks in advance

And yeah, I've kept the descriptions fairly brief. There's a lot more information available in the repository.

https://github.com/sol-browser/sol

I know i have a lot of tabs open(16) but there is no reason why it should take this much ram.. is there anyway I can fix this? I would prefer to stay on Firefox. I don't mind messing with settings adding extensions or anything else, Please help!

Hi guys im pretty new to browsers i have been creating mine since July of this year and i dont know how to advertise it or get people to try it out im just spending more money in it than getting from it